Vietnam has caught up with the world’s AI trend. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – With the development of several language modelsdesigned specifically for Vietnamese users like PhoGPT, Vietnam has caught upwith the world’s AI trend, an expert from VinAI under Vingroup conglomerate said on December 19.
At the VinFuture Foundation’s forum themed “AI: Transformation Opportunitiesand Challenges”, Prof.Dr Bui Hai Hung, founding director of VinAI, highlightedthat Vietnam’s generative AI features have allowed users to create contents inmarketing and given them a great deal of support when they want to enrichtheir knowledge.
As the technology has an increasing impact on the society, it is necessary tocapitalise on it and use it for good, he said, adding core technologiesshould be developed so as to develop new tools that are suitable for Vietnam’slanguage and culture.
Dr. Xuedong Huang, Chief Technology Officer at Zoom,said that AI is an incomplete model, therefore it is necessary to develop acontent filtering system to ensure the right content for the society.
Meanwhile,Prof.Leslie Gabriel Valiant from Harvard University stressed that since AI isonly bad if it is used for bad purpose, people should join hands to control andsafely use the technology instead of giving the control to computers.
Discussing the boom of AI and its impact on everyday life, other world’sleading experts in the field said 2023 is a breakout year for AI – a new factorthat shapes up the global socio-economy.
AI chatbots is a popular source of information for millions of people, whileOpenAI’s ChatGPT reaches 100 million users just two months after launching,they said, adding the development of the GPT-3 (2022) and GPT-4 (2023) marks amajor milestone in the implementation of AI.
Enterprises and research organisations could take advantage of AI toimprove their productivity and reduce the researching time, thus savingproduction cost and creating an interesting and competitive workingenvironment; however, it is just the best-case scenario, they said.
The technology has posed formidable challenges in ethics, security and equalaccess, especially when AI’s massive capacity is controlled by a minority group, experts elaborated.
Besides, they added that AI is billed as a profound threat since some 300million people across the globe may lose jobs to this technology as said byeconomists from Goldman Sachs Group, a leading global investment banking,securities, and investment management firm in the US.
The VinFuture Foundation, established on the International Human Solidarity Day on December 20th, 2020, is a non-profit organisation co-founded by Vingroup Chairman Pham Nhat Vuong and his wife, Pham Thu Huong. The Foundation's core activity is awarding the annual VinFuture Prize, which recognises transformative scientific and technological innovations capable of making significant positive changes in the lives of millions of people worldwide./.
